Several areas south of Sudan's capital Khartoum are at risk of famine, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday, with need on the ground outstripping resources amidst a food aid
June 10, 2025
Even as it pursues its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is also expanding its military footprint in Africa
June 10, 2025
GOP lawmakers uneasy about package to codify DOGE cuts ahead of House vote this week
June 09, 2025
Four people were killed and others injured by Israeli forces on Sunday as Palestinians making their way towards an aid distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip came under
June 08, 2025
Rwanda has said it would withdraw from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), underscoring diplomatic tensions in the region over an offensive this year by Rwanda-
June 08, 2025
Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby has announced that his country is suspending the issuing of visas to U.S. citizens in response to the Trump administration’s decision to ban Chadians from visiting the United States
June 05, 2025
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June 06, 2025
The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country
June 06, 2025
The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced the closure of its offices in Niger and the departure of its foreign staff, four months after the ruling junta ordered the organization to leave the country
June 06, 2025
Tens of thousands of secondary school students sat for state exams in rebel-held eastern Congo this week, a complicated logistical feat requiring rare
June 06, 2025
Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself
June 05, 2025
Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu died on Thursday at the age of 68, six months after an attempted return to politics was thwarted by a court
June 05, 2025
President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace
June 05, 2025
A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species
June 05, 2025
South African former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was spotted taking part in a triathlon last weekend in the coastal city of Durban
June 05, 2025
The World Bank said on Thursday it would resume funding to Uganda, nearly two years after the global lender suspended new financing to the country in response to an anti-LGBT law
June 05, 2025
Germany’s straight-talking new leader is meeting with Trump for the first time. Here’s why it matters
June 05, 2025
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives
June 04, 2025
UN demands probe after dozens of bodies found at Libya detention sites
June 04, 2025
At least 98 people are still missing in addition to 160 confirmed dead a week after floods ripped through a town in central Nigeria, the national
June 04, 2025
Ivory Coast opposition leader and former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam has been excluded from the country's final list of presidential candidates, rendering him ineligible to
June 04, 2025
Nigeria's defence chief on Tuesday called for the country's borders with its four neighbours to be completely fenced to curb the entrance of armed groups amid
June 03, 2025
South African business activity grew at its fastest pace in four years in May, driven by a robust increase in private sector output and improved customer confidence, a survey
June 04, 2025
The U_N_ Security Council has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution which demands “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties.”
June 03, 2025
Five countries have won seats on the United Nations Security Council in uncontested elections
June 03, 2025
The number of people who have fled Sudan since the beginning of its civil war in 2023 has surpassed four million, U.N. refugee agency officials said on Tuesday, adding
June 03, 2025
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday elected Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia to the 15-member U.N.
June 03, 2025
African countries should focus on developing liquid local debt markets in their home currencies to protect them from global volatility and fickle foreign investors,
June 03, 2025
An explosion killed two suspected rebels including a female suicide bomber near a Roman Catholic shrine in Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday morning, but no other people were
June 03, 2025
Zimbabwe has issued permits to cull at least 50 elephants on a reserve where there are three times more elephants than the habitat can sustain, wildlife authorities said on Tuesday.
June 03, 2025
South Africa's economy stagnated in the first quarter, eking out quarter-on-quarter growth of just 0.1%, as contractions in sectors like mining and manufacturing
June 03, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo executed at least 21 civilians over two days in February in the eastern city of Goma, Human
June 03, 2025
Officials and advocacy organizations say a second group of white South Africans has arrived in the United States under a refugee program announced by the Trump administration
June 02, 2025
In Uganda, where more than 40% of the population live in extreme poverty, many families live in homes with dirt floors
June 02, 2025
Sudan's new Prime Minister Kamil Idris has dissolved the country's caretaker government, state news agency SUNA reported late on Sunday.
June 01, 2025
Britain's foreign minister, David Lammy, said on Sunday that the UK considers Morocco's autonomy proposal as the most feasible basis to resolve the conflict over
June 01, 2025
Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza
May 31, 2025
At least 151 people have now been confirmed dead after heavy rainfall unleashed flooding in a market town in north-central Nigeria, the local emergency services told The Associated Press on Saturday
May 31, 2025
At least 150 killed as deadly floods hit Nigerian town
May 30, 2025
Sen. Ernst defends GOP’s proposed changes to Medicaid when pressed at town hall: ‘Well, we all are going to die’
May 30, 2025
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila appeared for the first time in public in rebel-held territory in the country's volatile east on Thursday, meeting with religious leaders in
May 29, 2025
Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in a bid to ramp up
May 30, 2025
Trump’s tariffs are under threat, but ports aren’t seeing a big rebound yet. That’s bad news for prices
May 30, 2025
A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then-6-year-old daughter, in a case that
May 29, 2025
The White House says Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas
May 29, 2025
Israel approves biggest expansion of West Bank settlements in decades
May 29, 2025
Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as politicians and affected communities
May 28, 2025
A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison for selling her 6-year-old daughter
May 29, 2025
At least seven people died when a migrant boat capsized as rescuers were escorting it to port in Spain's Canary Islands, regional emergency services said on Wednesday.
May 28, 2025
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